Report from the Middle East: interview with Michel Warschawski on growing up in Jerusalem.Michel Warschawski is a journalist and writer and a founder of the Alternative Information Center (AIC) in Israel. His books include On the Border and Towards an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society.
This program was produced by The Real News for April 5, 2010.
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Martha Myers speaks about the Israeli government’s changes in the visa regime for international humanitarian workers and how this will possibly impact the work of international non-governmental agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian territories. Ms. Myers, is Chair of the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) Executive Committee, and Country director of CARE international in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
This program was produced by News From Within for February 6, 2010.
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With publication of the Palestine Kairos Document, the Alternative Information Center interviewed Reverend Dr. Naim Ateek, a co-signatory of the document and founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center based in Jerusalem.
The Palestine Kairos Document, issued at a 11 December meeting in Bethlehem, echoes a similar summons issued by South African churches in the mid-1980s at the height of repression under the apartheid regime. That call served to galvanize churches and the wider public in a concerted effort that eventually brought the end of apartheid.
The authors of the Kairos Palestine Document believe that current efforts in the Middle East are confined to managing the crisis rather than finding pertinent and long term solutions to the crisis.
They reject any use of the Bible to legitimize or support political options and positions that are based upon injustice.
Through the logic of peaceful resistance, the authors believe that resistance is as much a right as it is a duty, as it has the potential to hasten the time of reconciliation. Reverend Dr. Ateek reviews the background and ideas behind the Palestine Kairos Document in this interview.
This program was produced by News From Within for December 21, 2009.
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On 24 October 2009, Martha Myers, presented the lecture “Economy, Development and Occupation” at the two day seminar “United in Struggle against Israeli Colonialism, Occupation, and Racism: Economic Perspectives and Advocacy Strategies,” which took place in Bethlehem, 24-25 October.
The seminar was jointly sponsored by The Alternative Information Center (AIC) and the Occupied Palestine and Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI).
Ms. Myers, is Chair of the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) Executive Committee, and Country director of CARE in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for October 24, 2009.
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The AIC interviewed Shawan Jabarin, the director of al-Haq Center, about the U.N. Goldstone Report, which accused Israel and the Hamas of war crimes in the Gaza Strip during the last Israeli offensive in December 2008 and January 2009.
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for October 8, 2009.
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United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
Interview with Andreas Müller about the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion regarding the “Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
Andreas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of European Law and Public International Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Currently, he is doing an LL.M. at the Yale University Law School, and is working on his PhD thesis on the international law of occupation. He is also the author of the AIC publication, “A Wall on the Green Line?”
This program was produced by News From Within for July 30, 2009.
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The Israeli military recently declared the shooting of Tristan Anderson, a nonviolent, un-armed American protester, an “act of war.” This ruling absolves the soldier or soldiers responsible of all liability under Israeli law. Anderson was shot in the forehead by a high-velocity tear gas canister on March 13, 2009 in the village of Nil’in following a non-violent demonstration. Tristan’s parents held this press conference on March 23, 2009.
This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for March 26, 2009.
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ISM Statement
Nassar Ibrahim, Policy Director at the Alternative Information Center (AIC), discusses the issue of normalization in the Palestinian/Israeli context at the AICafe in Beit Sahour.
This program was produced by News From Within for August 4, 2009.
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The first of two episodes covering lectures presented at the Quaker Friends Center in Ramallah. Shir Hever, economist with the Alternative Information Center, discusses the issue of development in the economy of occupation, concentrating on the question of the role and impact of international aid funds to the Palestinians.
This program was produced by News From Within for September 23, 2008.
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The second of two episodes covering lectures presented at the Quaker Friends Center in Ramallah. Palestinian-American businessman Sam Bahour, discusses the structure, limits and effectiveness of Palestinian economic development taking place under Israeli occupation.
This program was produced by News From Within for September 25, 2008.
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